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Calcutta Pilots Act, 1859 Section 10

Title: Trial How to Proceed Lf Any Jurors Does Not Attend

State: Central

Year: 1859

It for any cause any of the persons summoned to attend as jurors shall not be in attendance at the time fixed for the commencement of the trial, the trial may with the consent of the prosecutor and the party accused be held before the Judge and such jurors as shall be in attendance. If such consent be not given, the place of the absent juror shall be supplied by some other person selected by the Judge from the same profession or calling as the person originally summoned and who shall consent to serve, provided no objection to such person be made and allowed in manner aforesaid. If the parties or either of them do not consent that the trial shall be held before the Judge and such jurors as may be in attendance and the place of the absent juror cannot be supplied by a person consenting to serve, the trial shall be postponed to another day and the Judge shall either re-summon the same jury or appoint and summon another jury in the manner hereinbefore provided.

Calcutta Pilots Act, 1859 Section 16

Title: Verdict of Jurors

State: Central

Year: 1859

Upon the completion of the trial the jurors shall give their verdict upon the charge, or, if there be more than one, upon each separate charge. The verdict shall be according to the opinion of the majority of jurors. If the jurors are equally divided, the Judge shall declare his opinion, and the verdict shall be according to the opinion of the Judge and the jurors with whom he concurs.

Calcutta Pilots Act, 1859 Section 11

Title: Register of Jurors Who Have Served

State: Central

Year: 1859

The Judge shall register in a book the names of all jurors' mentioned in either of the said two lists who have attended and served on a trial held under this Act. A juror who has served shall not be required again to serve and his name shall be excluded in reading over the jury lists until all the persons named in the said lists who are present in Calcutta and capable of attending as jurors shall have served.

Coroners Act, 1871 Section 31

Title: Fine on Juror Neglecting to Attend

State: Central

Year: 1871

Whenever any person has been duly summoned to appear as a juror by a Coroner, and fails or neglects to attend at the time and place specified in the summons, the Coroner may cause him to be openly called in his Court three times to appear and serve as a juror; and upon the non-appearance of such person, and proof that such summons has been served upon him or left at his usual place of abode, may impose such fine upon the defaulter, not exceeding fifty rupees, as to the Coroner seems fit.

Coroners Act, 1871 Section 34

Title: Jurors Not to Be Summoned Twice Within the Year

State: Central

Year: 1871

Unless in case of necessity, no person who has appeared, or has been summoned to appear, as a juror on an inquest, and has not made default shall, within one year after such appearance or summons, be summoned to appear as a juror under this Act.

Coroners Act, 1871 Section 14

Title: Jurors to Be Sworn

State: Central

Year: 1871

When a sufficient jury is in attendance, he shall administer an oath to each juror to give a true verdict according to the evidence, and shall then proceed with the jury to view the body.

Coroners Act, 1871 Section 35

Title: Jurors on Inquest on Prisoner

State: Central

Year: 1871

When an inquest is held on the body of a prisoner dying within a prison, no officer of the prison and no prisoner confined therein shall be a juror on such inquest.

Oaths Act, 1969 Section 4

Title: Oaths or Affirmations to Be Made by Witnesses, Interpreters and Jurors

State: Central

Year: 1969

..... (c) jurors: Provided that where the witness is a child under twelve years of age, and the court or person having authority to examine such witness is of opinion that, though the witness understands the duty of speaking the truth, he does not understand the nature of an oath or affirmation, the foregoing provisions of this section and the provisions of section 5 shall not apply to such witness; but in any such case the absence of an oath or affirmation shall not render inadmissible any evidence given by such witness nor affect the obligation of the witness to state the truth. (2) Nothing in this section shall render it lawful to administer, in a criminal proceeding, an oath or affirmation to the accused person, unless he is examined as a witness for the defence, or necessary to administer to the official interpreter of any court after he has entered on the execution of the duties of his office, an oath or affirmation that he will faithfully discharge those duties.

Calcutta Pilots Act, 1859 Section 19

Title: If Verdict of Jurors Be Manifestly Contrary to Evidence, or Trial Otherwise Insufficient

State: Central

Year: 1859

If it shall appear to the Judge of the said Court that the verdict of the jurors is manifestly contrary to the evidence, or that the trial is otherwise insufficient, the Judge, instead of passing sentence on the accused person or declaring him acquitted, as the case may be, may certify the same to the Central Government, and the Central Government may either order a new trial before another jury or acquit the accused person, as it shall think fit.

The Poona Mutha River Flood Limits (Prohibition of Building) and Provision for Alternative Building Sites (Repeal) and Indemnity Act, 1965 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1965

.....Act may be called the Poona Mutha River Flood Limits (Prohibition of Building) and Provision for Alternative Building Sites (Repeal) and Indemnity Act, 1965. SECTION 02: DEFINITION In this Act "Corporation" means the Corporation of the City of Poona constituted under the Bombay Provincial Municipal Corporations Act, 1949. - SECTION 03: REPEAL OF MAH. XXXVII OF 1961 Subject to the provisions of section 5, the Poona Mutha River Flood Limits (Prohibition of Building) and Provision for Alternative Building Sites Act, 1961 is hereby repealed. SECTION 04: INDEMNITY Notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time being in force, the Authority, and each of the Members thereof who was at any time in office as such Member, and the Secretaries, and every member of the staff or other person appointed or assigned to the Authority under the repealed Act, and the State Government and every officer or servant of that Government, and the Corporation and every officer or servant of the Corporation, and every person acting under or in accordance with the orders, directions or instructions of any of the authorities or persons mentioned aforesaid are hereby freed, indemnified, and.....